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STERLING AIRWAYS

CONTRIBUTION BY CHRISTIAN FUNCH (DENMARK) email: damdog@post.tele.dk

Sterling Airwyas was founded in May 1962 and began charter flights with some ex. Swissair DC6Bīs.

in 1964 a jet aircrafts was need and the Caravelles 10B3 was found to be the best available. Consequently the airline introduced it the following year on charter flights to Europe, Middle East and Africa. Subsequent orders brought the airline Caravelles fleet to 12 series, 10B3 series and two 10R aircrafts.

In December 1971 a Sterling 10B became the first Caravelle to cross the Atlantic with cormercial payload, when it flew from Oslo to Gander with 99 passengers, a distance of 4200km/2650Miles in 5 hours and 33 minuttes, thus inaugurating a series of charter flights to North America.

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Same year Sterling Airways had taken delivery of the first 13 Caravelles 6R it had purchased from United Airlines. Although some were quickly sold or leased out, the 6R formed the bulk of Sterlingīs medium range fleet for European services until they were retired in the mid seventies.

In 1968 Sterling had worked closely with Sud Aviation to produce the series 12 variant, and the following year it ordered 11 Caravelles 12s, but later reduced the order to seven. 

In order to increase the range of the aircraft the maximum take-off weight reached 58 tons and the aircrafts were unofficially named Caravelles 12Bs.

Sterling operated a total of 34 Caravelles (not all at the same time) and was the second largest operator after Air France.

List of Caravelles operated by STERLING AIRWAYS

        REG.         C/N       TYPE

  • OY-SAA     270     12

  • OY-SAB     271     12

  • OY-SAC     269     12

  • OY-SAD     272     12

  • OY-SAE     273     12

  • OY-SAF     275     12

  • OY-SAG     276     12

  • OY-SAH     88       6R

  • OY-SAJ     104      6R

  • OY-SAK     99       6R

  • OY-SAL     89        6R

  • OY-SAM    95        6R

  • OY-SAN     98       6R

  • OY-SAO     101     6R

  • OY-SAP     90       6R

  • OY-SAR     103     6R

  • OY-SAY     255     10R

  • OY-SAZ     263     10R

  • OY-SBV     91       6R

  • OY-SBW    93       6R

  • OY-SBY     94       6R

  • OY-SBZ     114     6R

  • OY-STA     183     10B3

  • OY-STB     186     10B3

  • OY-STC     212     10B3

  • OY-STD     238     10B3

  • OY-STE     249     10B3

  • OY-STF     257     10B3

  • OY-STG     259     10B3

  • OY-STH     262     10B3

  • OY-STI      265     10B3

  • OY-STK     266     10B3 caught fire during taxi to runway in Teheran on 15.3 1974

  • OY-STL     267     10B3 crashed in Dubay (total W/O) on 14.3.1972

  • OY-STM     268     10B3

 

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